Knowledge
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Risk Management Versus Cost Management
This paper describes the necessary trade-off between risk management and cost management in a modern, performance-based maintenance contract. Risk management is achieved by an effective, procedural-based PM system implemented using a scheduling process and observing a previously developed resource plan. Through competitive tendering, the resources available to implement this plan are lean – the primary…
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Maintenance Improvement Strategies
A maintenance improvement strategy is presented in this paper which has been applied in a number of companies, with each of its elements tested for individual effectiveness and for its contribution to the whole program. It focuses on two key issues: the operations/maintenance interface, and the need for detailed technical information on the condition of…
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Improving Return from Maintenance
This paper is a contribution to the principal issues in formulation maintenance strategy and the integration of resources to conducting a wide range of tasks. The strategy relies on the implementation of rigorous systems and the use of information technology for decision support. An aspect of maintenance support is value add work where asset performance…
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Managing the Partnership Between Service Provider and Client for Maximum Results
This paper summarises recent experiences in developing effective working relationships between clients and the contracted maintenance service providers. The work is drawn across a range of industries including manufacturing, utilities and facilities, with remarkably similar issues being common to all. The emphasis on improvement requires three key attributes in the day-to-day working relationship: a vision…
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Predictive Maintenance Activities in the Context of a Maintenance Strategy Review
This paper presents material associated with assessing the effectiveness of a variety of condition monitoring approaches within the context of a predictive/preventative maintenance strategy. It promotes the concept that earlier thinking on the application of RCM may need to be assessed in the light of the growth of lower cost predictive maintenance and life forecasting…
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Managing the Process of Outsourced Contracts and Agreements
Maintenance is a lifetime of sustained effort to ensure that the assets of acompany continue to provide a service that will ensure that the organisationcan provide its designated service. As a consequence a maintenancecontract has very different business goals from the provision of servicesthrough construction or a one-off engineering exercise.